PRESBYTERY OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT p. 712

1690. WILLIAM BOYD, studied divinity at the Univ. of Glasgow about 1685, was licen. abroad, joined the Cameronians, and sought ordination, without obtaining it, in Holland, where he enjoyed the friendship and confidence of William, Prince of Orange, whom he accompanied to Britain, and whose ascension to the throne he was the first publicly to announce, by proclaiming him at the cross of Glasgow. Having submitted to the Gen. Assembly on the 22d, with two ministers, he was received into communion 25th Oct. 1690, and ord. same year. He was a member of the Assembly 1692, and died in April 1741, in his 83d year and 51st min. During his incumbency Robert Johnston LL.D. of St Anne's, London, bequeathed £3000 for building a free grammar school in the parish. This legacy, which was the cause of a protracted litigation, was lost, by singular mismanagement, in the Court of Session in Feb. 1704. Mr B. marr. 26th Nov. 1701, Jean Maxwell, relict of Mr John Sinclair, min. of Irongray, and had three sons, Robert, Andrew, and Edward, the two latter being min. of Twynham, and Wigton.-[Wodrow's Hist., and Anal., Acts 1690, and Reg. Gen. Ass. 1692, Syn., Presb., and Dumfries Reg. (Marr.), Barbour's Tributes, Tombst., Burke's Landed Gentry, &c.]

1740. ALEXANDER DICK, licen. by the Presb. of Edin. 28th July 1731, called 24th April, and ord. (assist. and suc.) 30th July 1740; died 4th Feb. 1783, in 43d min. He marr. 12th April 1742 Janet, eldest daugh. of William Martin of Kirkland; she died 28th Dec. 1749, and had a son James, who went to South Carolina, and two daughters.-[Presb., and Syn. Reg., Tombst., &c.]

1783, ALEXANDER M'GOWAN, born of humble parents at Knockreoch, in the par. of Kells. He supported himself by teaching, was engaged in 1767 as tutor in the family of John Newall of Earlston, became schoolmaster of the parish, and was licen. by the Presb. 2d Aug. 1775, pres. by the said Mr Newall-,and ord. 3d July 1783; died 12th Oct. 1826, in his 89th year and 44th min. He was a person of talents and learning, an original thinker, of patriarchal simplicity of manners, an excellent Hebrew scholar, but of extremely eccentric habits, and great ignorance of the world. He marr. 10th Oct. 1785 Mary, daugh. of James Newall, Esq. of Stranfasket (bapt. 20th Jan. 1770), who survived her marriage eighty-two years, and died 21st June 1867, in her 98th year; she had seventeen children, of whom Rev. James teacher, Liverpool, John, Joseph, Thomas, M.D., Manchester, David, George, merchant, Manchester, Mary marr. Mr Glover, Anna, Patricia marr. Mr Malcolmson, Wilhelmina, Oswald marr. Mr Christie, Jane Margaret marr.  Mr Edmonstone, Stewart Mr Thorburn, and Murray.-Publications-Two single Sermons, Edin. 1806-1825, 8vo; Account of the Parish (Sinclair's St. Acc. xiii.)-[Presb., and Syn. Reg., Tombst., Murray's Galloway, Barbour's Tributes, &c.]

1827. WILLIAM ANDERSON, born at Cleuch, in the par. of Kilbucho, licen. by the Presb. of Selkirk 7th Aug. 1811, became tutor to William Forbes, Esq. of Callander, by whom he was pres., with consent of his Curators, 18th and 21st Nov. and 5th Dec. 1826, ord. 23d Aug. thereafter; got the church rebuilt in 1831, and died 29th Dec. 1835, in 45th age, and 9th min. He marr. 5th June 1828 Louisa Marsden, and had two sons and a daughter.-[Presb., and Syn. Reg., New St. Acc. iv., Tombst., &c.]

1836. GEORGE PATERSON, born in the parish of Kilmadock, licen. by the Presb. of Dunblane 25th Nov. 1834, pres. by William Forbes, Esq. of Callander (after a selection by the